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• Andre Gray targeted by Bristol City as Crystal Palace striker Dwight Gayle stalls on £8m move

  12-08-2015 23:56 via
  
  Bristol City will switch to Brentford striker Andre Gray if Crystal Palace's Dwight Gayle continues to hold out for a move to Norwich instead.
  
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• From Ashes hero to FA Cup manager

  12-08-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ten years after helping England win the Ashes, Steve Harmison is set for his first FA Cup tie as Ashington AFC manager.
  
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• Juventus line up double Chelsea swoop as Juan Cuadrado and Ramires are targeted

  12-08-2015 23:49 via
  
  Juventus have enquired about Chelsea midfielders Juan Cuadrado and Ramires. The Serie A champions are trying to replace the likes of Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal.
  
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• Jose Mourinho stands firm at Chelsea and won't reinstate Eva Carneiro

  12-08-2015 23:49 via
  
  Jose Mourinho will resist all calls to reinstate Eva Carneiro despite a huge backlash over Chelsea’s treatment of the team doctor. On Wednesday the pressure mounted on the Portuguese boss.
  
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• Roy Hodgson will be sacked if England flop at Euro 2016 after FA chief's stark warning

  12-08-2015 23:39 via
  
  Roy Hodgson accepts that he will be axed if England flop at next summer’s European Championship following clear-the-air talks with the FA’s new chief executive Martin Glenn.
  
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• Manchester United refuse to launch female team and are accused of blocking progress of women's football following World Cup

  12-08-2015 23:38 via
  
  Manchester United have been accused of undermining the progress of women’s football by steadfastly refusing to launch a female team of their own.
  
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• Jake Livermore failed drugs test for cocaine after the tragedy of losing a child, and FA may go easy on Hull City midfielder

  12-08-2015 23:38 via
  
  MATT LAWTON, CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Jake Livermore failed a drugs test for cocaine after struggling to cope with the terrible tragedy of losing a child.
  
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• Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson could spoil the party for Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth at the US PGA Championship

  12-08-2015 23:37 via
  
  Sportsmail has run the rule on the field ahead of the start of the 2015 US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits and has four recommendations to keep an eye on in the final major of 2015.
  
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• Alex Goode wants Mike Brown's No 15 shirt not just a shoot out with Danny Cipriani to be England's utility back at the World Cup 

  12-08-2015 23:37 via
  
  Alex Goode is facing a duel with Danny Cipriani for one England squad place, but the Saracens full back is looking beyond making the World Cup by setting his sights on Mike Brown’s No 15 shirt.
  
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• Manchester City keeping tabs on Pedro as Barcelona star consider Nou Camp future

  12-08-2015 23:37 via
  
  Manchester City are monitoring Pedro’s situation at Barcelona as the Spain star considers his future over the next 48 hours. Pedro admits he may leave the Nou Camp for first-team football.
  
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• Twickenham residents demand RFU curb booze culture as rugby crowds descend for England vs France clash and the World Cup

  12-08-2015 23:36 via
  
  England rugby chiefs have been urged to crack down on loutish behaviour by drunk England rugby fans ahead of Saturday night’s World Cup warm-up clash against France
  
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• Jose Mourinho's scapegoats: Chelsea boss has blamed everyone from ball boys and fans to referees and opposing managers

  12-08-2015 23:33 via
  
  RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Eva Carneiro is not alone. From floodlight to fans to cows to referees, it has often been someone else's fault in the mind of Jose Mourinho during his time at Chelsea. 
  
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• Lord Coe: Athletes shouldn't have to reveal medical details to prove they're clean

  12-08-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LORD COE yesterday said that international athletes should not feel they have to reveal their personal and private medical details to prove they are clean and have not been blood-doping.
  
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• David Beckham already had too many MLS franchise commitments to get involved with Salford City project, says Ryan Giggs

  12-08-2015 23:25 via
  
  David Beckham turned down the chance of joining his Manchester United Class of 92 pals at Salford City to work on winning an MLS franchise in America. Ryan Giggs admits Beckham was invited.
  
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• Oldham 1-3 Middlesbrough: New boy Christian Stuani scores twice in cup stroll

  12-08-2015 23:18 via
  
  JOE BERNSTEIN AT SPORTSDIRECT.COM PARK: Middlesbrough's £3.5million summer signing Cristhian Stuani scored his first goals for the club as they cruised past League One Oldham.
  
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• Jos Buttler is more the man of steel than Mr Nice Guy... and wants Australia crushed 4-1 with one last England Ashes win at The Oval

  12-08-2015 23:06 via
  
  There’s more steel to Jos Buttler than meets the eye. He has not let his Ashes success distract him from his lack of runs, and knows England have never beaten Australia four times in a home summer.
  
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• Serge from Kasabian says finding out Claudio Ranieri used their song to inspire Leicester City to victory over Sunderland was better than all the awards they've won

  12-08-2015 22:58 via
  
  Even playing in one of the world's most popular bands does not stop Kasabian guitarist Serge from being left starstruck, and he was stunned after hearing what Claudio Ranieri had to say.
  
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• Crewe 1-3 Preston: Manchester United loanee Will Keane opens North End account in Capital One Cup victory

  12-08-2015 22:57 via
  
  Will Keane opened his Preston account as North End avoided the fate of many of their Sky Bet Championship rivals by beating Crewe 3-1 to advance in the Capital One Cup.
  
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• Eva Carneiro: Caught between their medical duty and a screaming manager ... who'd be a football doctor?

  12-08-2015 22:15
  He certainly has some previous for playing the blame game, but Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho's very public attack on his team doctor Eva Carneiro, is unprecedented. Mourinho has reportedly banned Carneiro from the coach, the bench and even the team hotel this weekend, making her position look the very definition of untenable.
  
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• VIDEO: McIlroy will keep playing football

  12-08-2015 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory McIlroy will not stop playing football despite missing the Open because of an ankle injury he sustained during a kickabout.
  
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• Australia takes control with Megan Schutt claiming four wickets and Jess Jonassen out for 99 on day two of the Women's Test

  12-08-2015 22:13 via
  
  KALIKA MEHTA IN CANTERBURY: Australia bowled England out for 168 and took a 106-run first innings lead at stumps on an attritional day two of the solitary Women's Ashes Test.
  
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• Paulo Wanchope quits role as Costa Rica national team coach after Panama fistfight 

  12-08-2015 22:03 via
  
  Costa Rica coach Paulo Wanchope resigned on Wednesday after being involved in a brawl with an unidentified person during an Olympic qualifying match against Panama.
  
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• George North injury lay-off will help Wales at World Cup, claims Sam Warburton

  12-08-2015 21:21 via
  
  Wales captain Sam Warburton believes that George North will benefit from his lengthy lay-off heading into next month's World Cup.
  
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• France continue intensive World Cup training regime in the Pyrenees ahead of 100th clash with England at Twickenham

  12-08-2015 21:18 via
  
  Medicine balls, agility sprints and grimace-inducing cycling sessions showed France has no plans to taper off ahead of their World Cup warm-up against England at Twickenham on Saturday. 
  
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• Rogers Cup 2015: Heather Watson kicks off her north American hard-court campaign with easy win over Irina Falconi

  12-08-2015 20:53
  
  British No 1 Heather Watson kick-started her north American hard-court campaign with an emphatic victory in Toronto.
  
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• US PGA Championship 2015: Whistling Straits - the course with over a thousand bunkers

  12-08-2015 20:49
  
  There are Post-it notes all over Whistling Straits, particularly in the locker room above the urinals. So when Dustin Johnson stands there he can’t be in any doubt: if it’s sand, it’s a bunker.
  
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• David Beckham already had too many MLS franchise commitments to get involved with Salford City project, admits Ryan Giggs

  12-08-2015 20:47 via
  
  David Beckham turned down the chance of joining his Manchester United Class of 92 pals at Salford City to work on winning an MLS franchise in America. Ryan Giggs admits Beckham was invited.
  
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• Oriol Romeu joins Southampton from Chelsea in £4m deal after passing medical

  12-08-2015 20:46 via
  
  Southampton have completed the signing of Chelsea midfielder Oriol Romeu in a £4million deal. The 23-year-old Spaniard had a medical on the south coast on Wednesday.
  
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• Neil McDonald has ignored warnings in bid to lift troubled Blackpool

  12-08-2015 20:43
  
  On paper, the job of Blackpool manager looks like the proverbial poisoned chalice. This is a club described as “toxic” by previous manager Lee Clark, a club newly relegated from the Championship and divided by a bitter conflict between its owners and supporters – some of whom took their protests on to the pitch at the last home game of last season, causing its abandonment.
  
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• US PGA Championship 2015: Jason Day draws on Open agony in quest to scratch that major itch

  12-08-2015 20:40
  
  Those early minutes in the immediacy of defeat, when the eyes are still ablaze and adrenalin is pumping out words by the bucket load, are uniquely revealing.
  
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• Australia's Ashes losers upbeat in training in Northampton ahead of three-day tour match after pep talk from Rod Marsh

  12-08-2015 20:37 via
  
  Australia's chief selector Rod Marsh delivered some home truths to the team which has handed the Ashes back to England ahead of their final tour match in Northampton, which starts on Friday. 
  
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• Rugby World Cup 2015: Usual French discord brings hopes to rivals ahead of tournament

  12-08-2015 20:36
  
  It sounded like a cliché, despite Alex Goode’s well-established reputation for dodging the threadbare platitude almost as effectively as he avoids first-up tacklers when running the ball out of defence.
  
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• Ashes 2015: Rod Marsh tells Australia's 'deplorable' batsmen to become more selfish

  12-08-2015 20:29
  
  Rod Marsh, Australia’s chairman of selectors, has launched a scathing attack on his country’s batsmen and called on them to be more “selfish”.
  
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• Amir Khan confident 'amazing' fight with Manny Pacquiao can happen as he talks up possibility of staging clash in the UAE

  12-08-2015 20:29 via
  
  Amir Khan admits he would love to agree a fight with Manny Pacquiao in the Middle East early next year, as long as it makes financial sense to face the Filipino superstar.
  
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• Doping crisis: Jo Pavey set for 2007 World Championship medal when IAAF rewrites record books

  12-08-2015 20:25
  
  Eight years after finishing an agonising fourth at the 2007 World Championships, Britain’s Jo Pavey looks set to be awarded a bronze medal in the ongoing fall-out from the latest set of doping sanctions.
  
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• Rafael on his Manchester United exit: Louis van Gaal did not like me

  12-08-2015 20:12 via
  
  Rafael has opened up about his exit from Manchester United, claiming manager Louis van Gaal did not like him. Rafael's eight-year spell at United came to an end last week.
  
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• Kevin Gallacher in court after his golden retriever 'bit girl, seven,in pub garden' 

  12-08-2015 20:06 via
  
  Former Scotland international Kevin Gallacher is said to have let the youngster stroke his dog, Baxter, unsupervised as he turned to chat to a friend at a picnic table in a pub garden inBlackburn.
  
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• Moeen Ali urges England to go for the jugular against Australia in their final Ashes Test at The Oval

  12-08-2015 19:55 via
  
  Moeen Ali is calling on England to 'put the foot on the throat' against Australia at The Oval next week, as they seek to wrap up a 4-1 Investec series success.
  
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• Former Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt's slotted penalty sparks fight between photographers

  12-08-2015 19:36 via
  
  When former Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt scored on his second debut for Feyenoord, little did he know that the result would be a mini-brawl between two photographers.
  
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• Manchester United target Pedro has a sea lion named after him and is good pals with Manchester City's David Silva... 10 things you didn't know about the Barcelona star

  12-08-2015 19:32 via
  
  Louis van Gaal is ready to pay the Pedro's £22million release clause to bring him to Old Trafford, but how much do we really know about the quiet man of Barcelona's attack?
  
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• Jose Mourinho is 'unjust to the extreme' for altering the role of Eva Carneiro at Chelsea, say the Premier League Doctors' Group

  12-08-2015 19:31 via
  
  The Premier League Doctors' Group have described Jose Mourinho's decision to alter the role of Eva Carneiro as 'unjust to the extreme' and accused him of putting results above player welfare.
  
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• Michael Jordan: Basketball legend brings £6.4m lawsuit over misuse of image rights by supermarket chain in 2009 advert

  12-08-2015 19:30
  
  Only two customers ever bothered to redeem the $2 coupons for Rancher’s Reserve Steak from Dominick’s, a now defunct grocery chain in Chicago. Michael Jordan probably wasn’t one of them.
  
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• Michael Jordan: Basketball legend brings $10m lawsuit over misuse of image rights by supermarket chain in 2009

  12-08-2015 19:30
  
  Only two customers ever bothered to redeem the $2 coupons for Rancher’s Reserve Steak from Dominick’s, a now defunct grocery chain in Chicago. Michael Jordan probably wasn’t one of them.
  
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• England prop Mako Vunipola says World Cup training camp 'torture' in Denver made him question his desire to play rugby

  12-08-2015 19:16 via
  
  Mako Vunipola insists England's two-week training camp in Denver, Colorado, was so tough that the Saracens prop began reconsidering his future in rugby.
  
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• Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky set for spell out after minor knee surgery

  12-08-2015 19:07 via
  
  Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky is set for a spell on the sidelines following minor knee surgery. The 34-year-old, who agreed a contract extension, has been struggling with the problem since June.
  
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• Eva Carneiro latest: Jose Mourinho widely criticised, Chelsea manager's behaviour branded 'appalling'

  12-08-2015 19:03
  
  Jose Mourinho faced wide-ranging criticism today for his decision to remove matchday duties from Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro, whose treatment was described by her fellow Premier League medics as “unjust in the extreme”.
  
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• Tomas Rosicky injury: Arsenal midfielder undergoes knee surgery

  12-08-2015 18:56
  Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky is set for a spell on the sidelines following minor knee surgery.
  
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• Adam Johnson out for at least two months with 'serious' shoulder injury, concedes Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat

  12-08-2015 18:54 via
  
  Sunderland winger Adam Johnson is set to undergo tests on Wednesday evening to determine the severity of the shoulder injury he suffered in training but a lengthy spell is expected.
  
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• Edin Dzeko to Roma: Manchester City striker completes loan move

  12-08-2015 18:53
  
  Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has joined Roma on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent transfer.
  
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• Edin Dzeko joins Roma on season-long loan deal from Manchester City

  12-08-2015 18:45 via
  
  Edin Dzeko scored 72 goals in 189 appearances for Manchester City since joining from Wolfsburg in January 2011. He will join Roma permanently if he meets certain targets this season.
  
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